Med Term Exam 2

iatr/o, -iatry

medicine, physician - medical treatment

medic/o

medicine

therap/o, therapeut/o, -therapy

treatment

pharmac/o, pharmaceutic/o

drugs - medicine

diet/o

food

chirurgic/o

surgery

log/o, -logy

words, speech - the study of

nom/o, -nomy

law, custom - knowledge/laws of

physi/o, physic/o

nature, growth, function - physical, natural

techn/o

art, skill

erg/o, -ergasia

work - function

san/o, sanit/o

health

hygien/o, hygiei/o

health

anthrop/o

human

hom/o, homin/o

human

idi/o

individual - distinct

dem/o

people

ethn/o

race - culture

gen/o

race, kind, hereditary, gene

andr/o

male, masculine, stamen of a flower

viril/o

male, masculine

gyn/o, gynec/o

female, feminine, pistil of a flower

femin/o

female, feminine

ped/o

child

pueril/o

child

ger/o

elderly, old age

presby/o

elderly, old age

sen/o, senil/o

elderly, old age

gnos/o, gnost/o, -gnosia, -gnosis, -gnomy

knowledge, knowing; -gnomy = a means of knowing

eti/o

cause

aeti/o

cause

esthesi/o, -esthesia

sensation, feeling

morb/o

disease

nos/o, -nosis

disease

path/o, -pathy, -path

disease, feeling, suffering; -path = one affect by a disease, one who treats a disease

mort/o

death

thanat/o, -thanasia

death

necr/o

dead body, dead

febr/o

fever

pyr/o, pyret/o

fever, fire

hem/o, hemat/o

blood

-emia, -hemia

blood

poly-

many

mult/i

many

cal/o, calor/o

heat, calorie

rubr/o

red, redness

tum/o

swelling, tumor, adnormal mass

edemat/o

swelling

troph/o, trophy

nourishment, growth

tabet/o

wasting

cel/o, kel/o, -cele

hernia, protrusion

cyt/o

cell

cell/o, cellul/o

cell

cancer/o

cancer, crab

carcin/o

cancer, crab

mal/o, malign/o

bad, faulty; malign- = cancerous, becoming worse

kak/o, cac/o

bad, faulty

phlog/o

inflammation

dolor/o

pain

MALAC/O

(mal‐ă‐kō)

‐MALACIA

(mă‐lā‐shē‐ă)

Soft, abnormal softening

‐PTOSIS

(ptō‐sĭs)

Downward displacement, prolapse

‐ECTASIS

(ek‐tă‐sĭs)

‐ECTASIA

(ek‐tā‐zhē‐ă)

Dilation, expansion

SCHIZ/O

(skĭ‐zō)

‐SCHISIS

(skĭ‐sĭs)

A splitting, a cleft

STAS/O

(stā‐sō)

STAT/O

(stă‐tō)

‐STASIS

(stā‐sĭs)

‐STAT

(stăt)

A standing, stoppage, cause to stand; ‐STAT = A device for stopping, ceasing something

POIET/O

(poy‐ĕ‐tō)

‐POIESIS

(poy‐ē‐sĭs)

To make, produce

PLAST/O

(pla‐stō)

‐PLAST

(plast)

‐PLASIA

(plā‐zē‐ă)

formed, molded; ‐PLAST = Forming cell or organelle;

‐PLASIA = Condition of formation, growth

FAC/O

(fak‐ō)

FIC/O

(fik‐ō)

FACT/O

(fak‐tō)

FECT/O

(fek‐tō)

To make, cause

GEN/O

(jē′nō)

‐GEN

(jĕn)

To become, be produced

GRAPH/O

(gra‐fō)

‐GRAPH

(graf)

‐GRAPHY

(gră‐fē)

Writing; ‐GRAPH =

A device for an image or written record, or the record itself; ‐GRAPHY =

Process of recording, writing

GRAMMAT/O

(gra‐mă‐tō)

‐GRAM

(gram)

Something written or drawn; ‐GRAM = A record or image of something

*METR/O

(mĕ‐trō)

‐METER

(mēt‐ĕr)

‐METRY

(mĕ‐trē)

Measure, measurement; ‐METER = Measuring instrument; ‐METRY = The process of measuring something

-tomy

incision

-ectomy

excision

-tome

device for incision

-stomy

surgical creation of an opening

-plasty

surgical reconstruction

-pexy

surgical fixation

-tripsy

crushing

-scopy

examination; esp. w/ a device

-scope

device for looking into a body part

-desis

surgical binding, fusion

-centisis

surgical puncture for aspiration

-section

a cutting

-clasty

a surgical breaking

-trypesis

a surgical boring

tom/o

cut, a section

stom/o, stomat/o

a mouth, an opening

pex/o, -pexis

fixation, binding

rhaph/o

seam, suture - needle, needle-like

clast/o, -clast, -clasis, -clasia

broken, breaking

scop/o

to view

sect/o, sec/o

cut, a section

cis/o, -cide

kill, cut

tript/o

crushing, grinding

trepan/o, trephin/o, trypan/o

borer, drilling

S in SOAP

subjective

O in SOAP

objective

A in SOAP

assessment

P in SOAP

plan